These past months, we are hearing about Barrack Obama’s new reform. In fact, the president decided to change one of the main problems of America, which is the health insurance. Recently, I was reading an article, which was explaining that because of health care system’s high prices, an increasing number of individuals, families, employers, employees, and little children are uninsured because they cannot afford such prices. Numbers were also given. Indeed, I learnt that 45million of American don’t have any insurance. And the article didn’t stop there because in it studies revealed that health insurance prices usually increase 4 times faster than people’s wages. Stating that, the president revealed that his plan was to lower health insurance price, offering affordable insurance in order to allow everyone to have a high-quality health care. In his plans, the president talked about major changes. Indeed, he first stated that a new national health program would be available allowing people to have affordable health care. And thanks to this new system, ill people wont be ignored by insurance anymore, and wont be charged more because of their disease. In fact, pre-existing conditions wont be taken in account anymore. Moreover, employers will have to contribute in their employees’ health coverage. So basically, the president has decided to change the entire system, which constitutes a real evolution in the American system.
I wanted to write about this topic because coming from a foreign country, I couldn’t understand how it was possible for a country to not provide more help to its population. Indeed, in European countries almost everyone is covered by health insurance, allowing them to use the medical technologies offered in their country. I think that this reform is more than needed because living here made me realized that not everyone was able to have medical aid. For instance, in European countries, people can’t buy medication without prescription, whereas here this is possible. Because of high prices, people don’t take care of themselves, and avoid medical following. Hopefully, with this reform, which constitutes the president’s priority for 2010, people will have insurance and will all get treatment.
